Bywater Properties’ Theo Michell discusses the importance and viability of large-scale, timber-led developments, and why the current focus on retrofit may hamper innovation in the office sector.
Bell Phillips’ sensitively handled development of 40 social rent homes for Leathermarket Community Benefit Society (LCBS) is a rewarding housing delivery model that provides for local needs, says Mellis Haward.
SOLEAL Next windows and doors from TECHNAL: more possibilities, less impact
London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman’s colourful work, Abundance, gently makes its way around Paddington Central.
Technical virtuosity, madcap curatorship, and a remarkable eye for detail combine to secure the Soane Museum’s status as architecture’s intellectual funhouse
Zach Fluker, director of ao-ft, explains how Spruce House and Studio, constructed from CLT, establishes a prototype for sustainable housing on tight urban sites.
The founder and CEO of Valouran discusses the importance of resilience and strength when it comes to developing successful projects, and why retrofit offers the best of both worlds from a design and environmental perspective.
AT editor Isabel Allen unearths bamboo, a material that according engineer Neil Thomas, is "the material engineers would invent if they could design a material from scratch."
With the climate emergency more pressing than ever, it is increasingly important that claims about sustainability are both accurate and substantiated. Bennetts Associates director Peter Fisher explains why the practice is on a mission to stamp out exaggerated claims about building performance and has produced a charter to promote data sharing, transparency and truth.
Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam and George Massoud discuss how the Hackney-based practice is radically rethinking its attitudes towards materials for a post-carbon future.
David Kohn, Squire & Partners, Hawkins\Brown, Mecanoo, Morris + Company, AHMM, FCBS and Niall McLaughlin Architects, among others, comprise the shortlist for the 2023 BDA Brick Awards.
Katy Marks, founder of Citizens Design Bureau, on Sarajevo, the 'Jerusalem of Europe' where culture is both a survival tool and the city's life force.
